On 9/18/2011 11:07 AM, Tobias Conradi wrote:

According to http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/ 2011b the area shown as Bulunskij in Wikipedia is separated between Asia/Yakutsk MSK+6 and Asia/Vladivostok MSK+7.

Please don't use this map as an authority. My separation of the artic islands from the rest of Bulunskij is actually an artifact of the map I used to get boundaries of districts. In that map, the artic islands are not identified as "belonging" any district; I assigned them to the Asia/Vladivostok zone only because there are directly north of the Ust-Yanskiy district, which is in that zone.

[russian and english wikipedia pages for the subdivisions of Sakha] both use the same map which shows Bulunskij as including the New
Siberian Islands.

Incidentally, the French page (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_de_Sakha) clearly states that the New Siberian islands are a natural preserve, under direct authority of the Sakha republic, and are not part of any district.

Eric.